The Star and Eagle Hotel and wall attached
The Star and Eagle Hotel, High Street, Goudhurst, Cranbrook, TN17 1AL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084673
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Star and Eagle Hotel and wall attached
- Statutory Address:
- The Star and Eagle Hotel, High Street, Goudhurst, Cranbrook, TN17 1AL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084673
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Star and Eagle Hotel and wall attached
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Star and Eagle Hotel, High Street, Goudhurst, Cranbrook, TN17 1AL
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- The Star and Eagle Hotel, High Street, Goudhurst, Cranbrook, TN17 1AL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Goudhurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 72333 37786
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14 April 2023 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards
TQ 7237-7337
15/189
GOUDHURST
HIGH STREET (south side)
The Star and Eagle Hotel and wall attached
(Formerly listed as Star and Eagle Inn and wall attached)
9.6.52
GV
II
Inn. C15 and mid C20. Timber-framed and exposed with plaster infill on red brick and sandstone base, the rear elevations tile hung on red brick ground floor. Two staggered principal ranges, the front, entrance elevation originally C16, altered c.1800 and C19, late 1980s.
Two storeys and garret on sandstone plinth, with jettied gabled wings to left and to right, with recessed central bays. The ground floor built out with balustrade over. Covered and jettied gable to right, gables with moulded bargeboards. Stacks to right and at end left. Leaded wooden casements in gables and to first floor, and mullioned and transomed canted bay to left, to centre, with flush window to right. Central half-glazed door, with basement openings to centre. Rear left range: C16, continuous jettied two storey range, with moulded bressummer supported on dragon post, with projecting pentice to re-entrant angle, and stacks to end left and end right. Four and three-light mullioned windows. Across the re-entrant angle joining the two wings is a brick wall, part of the churchyard wall, about 1.8 metres high, of red brick, with segmentally headed boarded door to centre. Single storey wing to left, entered by rear courtyard, of red and blue brick, with central stack. Rear elevation of one storey with boarded door and two glazing bar sashes. The C16 range of two storeys, attic and basement to rear, with irregular fenestration of sashes and casements, with central canted bay, and projecting wings of various dates.
Interior: fully exposed frame in part reconstructed, with turned baluster stair (with detailable
"burglar's terror" newel), remains of C18 shop front (carved wooden post and window heads exposed in Ladies' Lavatories), and stone newel stair to cellar (reported) passage to adjacent church). An Inn at least since 1600 (recorded as the Black Spreadeagle). See Igglesden, Vol 12, 26-27; see also Kent Life, 1969, December issue).
Listing NGR: TQ7233537785
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 169539
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Igglesden, C, Saunter through Kent with pen and pencil, (1947), 26-27
Kent Life in December, (1969)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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